Last week, leading global media outlets \u2014 almost as if by agreement \u2014 published major stories about Ukrainian defence technology (some even more than one):<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ukrainian media also had plenty to offer last week \u2014 interviews, podcasts, and op-eds featuring founders of General Chereshnya, DevDroid, Double Tap Investments, TAF Industries, and Blue Bird. On 17 September 2025, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy signed Law No. 11533, which restricts public access to information about the location, production facilities, real estate, and even intellectual property of defence companies. The law takes effect on 18 November and will remain in force throughout martial law and for one year after it ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his Ukrainska Pravda<\/em> column, Stanislav Hryshyn, co-founder of General Chereshnya<\/em>, writes that this is a mature step by a state that knows how to distinguish transparency from naivety during wartime \u2014 and it\u2019s not<\/em> an \u201cattack on democracy.\u201d Instead, it\u2019s a strategic move that saves lives, production sites, and critical infrastructure. The next step, he says, should be creating a secure, non-public national register of defence enterprises managed by the state. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here\u2019s a brief roundup in Dorozvidka #32<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStanislav Hryshyn: Why defence company data should remain closed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n